{"id":2100,"date":"2020-04-08T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:27:57","slug":"cal-pacific-sends-care-to-mch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/cal-pacific-sends-care-to-mch\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal-Pacific sends care to MCH"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After gathering all the items and putting them on a pallet, Cal Pacific Supply owner Mike Alamari was glad to be able to donate more than $1,600 worth of supplies to the place he was born.<\/p>

Alamari, with help from a couple of his employees and Hector Vaca of Pacific Orchard Development, delivered a care pallet to Madera Community Hospital on Monday.<\/p>

\u201cWe\u2019re blessed that I was able to use our supply channels to get what we were able to get,\u201d Alamari said. \u201cWe\u2019re still finding alternatives for the ag guys. We made sure that the stuff that was needed went to where it needed to go \u2014 the front lines.\u201d<\/p>

MCH CEO Karen Paolinelli was on hand to see the delivery and she looked like a child on Christmas morning.<\/p>

\u201cIt feels like Christmas,\u201d she said. \u201cOur staff is going to be so appreciative of these supplies. We just need to keep our careworkers and doctors safe. It means so much to us. Right now, when we do our estimation of our supplies, for our surgical masks, this week, we\u2019ll run out of them. We\u2019re not able to purchase them. It matters a whole lot to us. Anything we can get and our partners donating to us just shows our support of our community. In times like this, us coming together as a community is great.\u201d<\/p>

Alamari actually went to school with Paolinelli\u2019s son Kenny so the delivery means even more to both parties.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s so great that he went to school with my son,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>

The care pallet contained 6,000 exam gloves, 2,000 surgical masks, 800 N95 respirators, 200 coveralls, 30 gallons of bleach, 30 packs of toilet paper, disinfectant spray and disinfectant wipes. In addition, Alamari donated six forehead thermometers to the hospital at the last minute.<\/p>

\u201cShe said she needed them and I had them here,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s okay, we\u2019ll find a way to work it out in the field. We were more than happy to give them what we have. We\u2019ll still take our precautions and our measures. They come first, obviously.\u201d<\/p>

Alamari first thought of donating when the outbreak first came to light, but found out more was needed and waited until he can give them a bigger donation and the look on Paolinelli\u2019s face was all the payment Alamari needed.<\/p>

\u201cThat\u2019s the payment itself,\u201d he said. \u201cOriginally, it was going to be a few N-95 masks. Then, I saw they needed gloves and we got some gloves. That\u2019s why, after a while, I thought it has to be a whole care pallet because things are hard for them to get right now. We were lucky enough to have good suppliers. We had good redundancies in place to be able to get from all of our suppliers.\u201d<\/p>

Alamari looked outside the box for supplies like purchasing for food distributors since the food industry is slow.<\/p>

\u201cThe gloves, for instance, we\u2019re getting from the food service guys because they are shut down,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m calling all those distributors for food service and get gloves from them. They are basically sold out now. I was lucky enough to catch it before everybody else did. We just stayed in tune and more than happy to donate.\u201d<\/p>

In addition, Vaca and his company helped Alamari purchase additional bleach and toilet paper for the donation.<\/p>

\u201cI took it as an opportunity to give back to the community,\u201d Vaca said. \u201cWith everything that is going on, I know supplies are scarce. As a supplier, myself, I can give him the money and he can take care of getting the supplies. It was nice to be able to do that.\u201d<\/p>

Alamari said he isn\u2019t done. He is still working on getting more supplies to help the people on the front line, especially at Madera Community Hospital. He even received calls from other medical centers and he donated what he could.<\/p>

\u201cI was born here in 1990,\u201d he said of MCH.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After gathering all the items and putting them on a pallet, Cal Pacific Supply owner Mike Alamari was glad to be able to donate more than $1,600 worth of supplies to the place he was born. Alamari, with help from a couple of his employees and Hector Vaca of Pacific Orchard Development, delivered a care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-charity","tag-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}